POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFTS FROM EMPLOYERS.

MARRIED MAN'S LAST CHANCE

Remanded for sentence pending- the report of the probation officer, Thomas Alfred Botterill, who had admitted thefts from his employers involving £ls 6s, and pleaded guilty to a charge of . false pretences, appeared in the Police Court yesterday. iHe was placed on probation for 12 months.

The charges of theft concerned sums which accused was stated to have failed to account for to his employers. He was also charged with obtaining 10s from a storekeeper by falsely representing that he was still in the employ of the firm. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said ha had received a report from the probation officer.- Botterill was married and had two young children. Restitution of some of the money had been made by '

his parents, and he would .be placed on probation to pay the balance of £8 15s. It would bo his last chance* and if he appeared before the Court 'ijjgain there would be a te*m of imprisonment. Convicted of being a rogue and a vagabond by imposing on the Auckland Hospital Board, obtaining stores and bread by falsely representing'that he was living with his wife and two children, John James William Brooks was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. Mr. Cocker, representing the Hospital Board, said' the board was not pressing for a- heavy penalty, but wanted to make it knbwn that it would take action against all persons obtaining charitable aid by false pretences.

The theft of a bicycle, valued at £ll 16s, the property of Alfred Thomas Turnbull, was admitted by Charles Ottokar Vincent, aged 21, a bootmaker. He was remanded until next Wednesday for sentence. Chief-Detective Hammond stated Vincent was out on license from the Borstal Institute, and other charges were

pending. "Tho houso has been empty for a while and the owner has found that people have been getting into tho place,"' said Sub-Inspector McCarthy, when Mary Sharman, aged 22, a domestic, and James Lionel Ma'ner, aged 25, a storeman, appeared charged with being found without lawful excuse on the enclosed premises of 233, Great North Road, but in circumstances which did not disclose the commission of or the intention to commit any other offence. Both accused pleaded guilty and were fined £1 each, in default three days' imprisonment.